Health Weapons

Updated June 19, 2000 5:45 p.m. ET

RE: ("Man vs. Bugs: Whose Side Is WHO On? ") Bravo for Dr. Gottlieb! The World Health Organization, it appears, would like to criminalize the act of doing what is best for an individual patient, and probably ration the use of drugs under centralized control.

The costly burden for FDA approval surely prevents the development and marketing of excellent, economical products. What happened, for example, to the antibiotics based...